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David Mokler co-authors paper on early childhood malnutrition

U N E professor David Mokler looks into a microscope

David Mokler, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology in the 糖心传媒 College of Osteopathic Medicine has co-authored a paper titled, 鈥淒NA Methylation Signature of Early Childhood Malnutrition Associated with Impairments in Attention and Cognition鈥 in the journal, Biological Psychiatry.

The paper reports on changes in DNA both in adult humans exposed to prenatal protein malnutrition as well as changes in a rat model of prenatal protein malnutrition, and how these changes are associated with deficits in attention and cognition in both humans and animals. The paper was co-authored with colleagues from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine and the University of New Hampshire. 

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